Hi Tobias, thanks for the quick response!
On Apr 29, 12:48 pm, tobias429 <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, > > You can develop on any Android phone. The Developer phones are only > specific in that they are guaranteed to come without a sim-lock and > can easily be rooted. > > AFAIK the G1 developer phone can't be upgraded to any Android version > higher than 1.6. due to memory limitations, so if you want to > specifically test on a physical device that's on 2.1 getting a Nexus > One would be a good idea. Thanks, for the clarification. So I will try to get a Nexus One. I wasn't sure if a google developer phone is needed, but since I'm currently not planning to modify the OS itself I should be fine even if I can't get a Nexus One. > > If you get a phone, you might want to check that the OS is Android > without any manufacturer specific add on like e.g. the HTC Sense user > interface. From what it looks like those phones are the last ones to > receive any OS upgrades, as the manufacturers need to adapt their > specific Android OS add-ons as part of the upgrade. Is there an easy way to remove the custom HTC GUI elements? I think I read this somewhere. Properly just deinstalling the apk files? > > Apart from that you can of course develop using the different > emulators that come with the SDK. You'll need to do this anyhow for > testing, as it will be very difficult to get your hands on any type of > combination of Android OS, Screen Resolution and hardware features > that's out on the market. I already used the emulator quite a lot. But the software rendering is just really slow on my machine. I have to use real hardware to see if the performance of the app is ok. Thanks again, Chris > > Cheers, > > Tobias > > On Apr 28, 2:17 pm, chris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > I plan to develop several apps for the android platform. I'm not yet > > entirely sure if I need a google developer phone or if it is > > sufficient to buy any android phone (e.g. HTC Desire, which is > > available in Germany) ? > > > As far as I know there are three google developer phones available: > > G1 > > G2 > > Nexus One > > > But only the Nexus One is deployed with Android 2.1. Do I really need > > to import a Nexus One via the United States to get a google developer > > phone which runs Android 2.1. Maybe I'm missing something? > > > Any tips are appreciated. > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
